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Pearl Harbor
What:Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. The bombing killed more than 2,300 Americans.
Why:It intended to destroy important American fleet units, thereby preventing the Pacific Fleet from interfering with Japanese conquest.
Effect:Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor caused about 2400 dead, almost 200 planes destroyed and 8 battleships destroyed or damaged. It brought in the US to the war. -
Wannsee Conference
What:15 high-ranking Nazi Party and German government officials gathered at a villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to discuss and coordinate the implementation of what they called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question."
Why:The German officials wanted to discuss how to kill the Jews.
Effects:The Germans decided how to deal with the Jews. -
Bataan death march
What:The surrendered Filipinos and Americans soon were rounded up by the Japanese and forced to march some 65 miles from Mariveles, on the southern end of the Bataan Peninsula, to San Fernando.
Why: The Japanese forced their prisoners to march to a nearby prison camp
Effects:A bunch of people died and were imprisoned -
D Day
What:156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France's Normandy region.
Why: to liberate western Europe from the Nazis.
Effects: D Day was the beginning of the end for Germany, and Nazis. -
Battle of the Bulge
What:Germans launch the last major offensive of the war, Operation Mist, also known as the Ardennes Offensive and the Battle of the Bulge.
Why:an attempt to push the Allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium.
Effects:The Germans lost so many experienced troops and equipment that there was no way their army could launch another attack on Allied forces. -
Battle of Imo Jima
What:fought between the United States and Japan during February and March of 1945, during the Pacific Campaign of World War II
Why: To take the island of Imo Jima from the Japanese.
Effects:the United States gained control of the island of Iwo Jima and the airfields located there. -
VE Day
What:The public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 (7 May in Commonwealth realms) to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.
Why: to celebrate the formal acceptance by the Allies.
Effects: People celebrate and have parties -
Liberation of concentration camps
What: Countries started to release the Jews kept up in the concentration camps
Why: The Jewish people should've never been held in captive
Effects: The Jews could begin anew. -
VJ Day
What: Victory over Japan Day
Why: To Celebrate the victory over Japan
Effects: People Partied and Celebrated -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
What:The United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, during the final stage of the Second World War.
Why:The United States dropped the bomb to end wwII. The other choice was invade Japan but that would kill more people than the atomic bomb.
Effects: America became a global power and ended world war two.
